This is wild, but it's indicative of a sickness among the executive (and not just techbro) class, who appears to prefer automatons who plagiarize others' work to anything original. The only *possible* way to do this job without completely burning out is to use AI.

Sheldon Whitehouse thinks Pam Bondi had integrity to lose. What a willful dupe. Good job, Senator, you're a moron.

Or, to put it more bluntly: "Rich people could pay less in taxes if only women would do more unpaid labor at home."

The Thessaly trilogy made me a Jo Walton fan, but this is the book that made me a devotee. Buy it. Read it. Love it.

It is extremely wrong how Dems talking point on this is that paying TSA by EO is totally legal and he should have done it sooner. It is not legal, that $10B is only for border security and TSA is not border security. He's stealing the power of the purse, stop saying he should have done it sooner!

Brendan Carr is a fascist. This is pure fascist-speak, and any media who don't call it what it is are lying to you.

lol this guy is such a dork

I really like this post because it implies that Neil Armstrong is a damn coward for leaving the moon instead of staying there

The purpose of right wing media is to make people believe stupid shit. It works on all income and education levels. Many members of Congress have fallen down this same rabbit hole.

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

Again: Republicans hate Americans (and have utter contempt for their choices).

can it be closed down sooner

It truly stuns me how a talentless hack and virulent mean girl who has always reeked of the desperation that comes with one who is constantly trying to impress men who hate women continues to fail upward. It is now directly affecting the economy.

My brother and his wife did this. The SAVE Act seeks to disenfranchise him for making a decision about his name and relationship. Republicans hate Americans.

For the record, the Nazis are spreading terms like “zio” and “zog” into leftist spaces intentionally as an on-ramp to fascism. This is what cryptofascism means. They explicitly talk about doing this on their forums and telegram channels. You’re being played.

It remains an insane part of capitalism to me that the people who suffer layoffs are always the lower rungs, never the executives whose decisions got them here in the first place.

For those wondering, 19th Ward, 29th Precinct. Voting at Keller Regional Gifted School. I was able to secure a provisional ballot and have voted. I just want to know who the hell impersonated me.

Some shenanigans going on at my precinct. They're saying I have already voted, which I absolutely have not. #ilpol #illinoisprimary

Another example of a purported journalist treating an evil and senile leader like a character on some drama rather than an actual human being who is completely unsuited to the job he has.

Not a surprise that a number of current and recent players think this way. Perhaps after 25 years, it's time to stop the military color guards, the fighter jet fly-overs, and the singing of God Bless America, all of which got fetishized by sports leagues after 9-11. (yeah, I'm not hopeful either.)

this picture is a good summary of how and why January 6th was, at a fundamental level, a successful insurrection.

Even Bush,delusional idiot that he was, wasn't dumb enough to reinstate the draft. You want to try it, you feckless orange hairball? You who dodged the draft with bogus bone spurs? Go ahead. Try it. And get the entire Republican Party stand behind it. See how that bodes for your future viability.

I don't agree with him on everything, but Cardinal Cupich is very ok.

This is a dude who knows and understands depression. What a cool guy. Please don't milkshake duck him.

The entire Department of Homeland Security needs to be dismantled. More of Bush's ignominious legacy.

Opening: "Beg Waves," Ponytail (honorable mention: "Only Shallow," My Bloody Valentine) Closing: "One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)," Wilco (honorable mention: "Find the River," R.E.M.)

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

AOC gets it. Too bad @durbin.senate.gov and @congressmanraja.bsky.social don't.

I'm not as fearful of AI as some progressives, though I'm still pretty anti-AI and anti-corporatization, but this is just... weird! Why do you want to see a virgin on the screen? What does that add to her performance?

Always and forever.

This is where I get into it with my parents. They are vehemently anti-gun, loathed Bill Clinton for his infidelity, believe in equality for LGBTQ+ folk, and one of them even admits that the healthcare system in the U.S. is a disaster. Yet they are reliable Trump voters. Make it make sense.

I adore the @phish.com song "More." Yes, we exist.

Yes all cops.

Welp, way to go, @padems.org. You allowed this addled, racist trash into the party.

Honestly I gotta hand it to Trump. If someone had told me they had a plan to get 23% of the GOP to support abolishing ICE I would have called them a liar. Any democrat who isn't all in on this is either deeply committed to cruelty or has the political instincts of a half-baked potato.

Everything about this is bad. The State having access to your mental health info could easily be abused by another RFK. Meanwhile, it would require corporations to keep and store mental health info, which also ain't good. AI needs to be kept as far away from human mental health as possible.

This is exactly what needs to be said. I have never seen two people more needing of being punched in the mouth by a Spanish-speaker than Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.

See, Billy's problem is that he has failed to match the artistic peak of his career and in fact has had a career arc more similar to (an admittedly much more prolific) Axl Rose. For the last 26 years, he has been trying desperately to reclaim the last album of his that mattered in any way.

This a million billion times. It isn't just the tattoo, either; it's the RTs of Nazis, the years of edgelording, the working for Blackwater. I'm willing to *maybe* believe one of those was a mistake. But if this is who Planter is, he doesn't have the judgment necessary to be a (good) Senator.

Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?

I sincerely, sincerely hope Ken Paxton dies of a very, very painful form of cancer, which gets diagnosed very soon. There are few men in the world as evil and spiteful as he is, and that includes the POS occupying the US presidency right now.

Anyone who believes this shit has no business having armaments.

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

I'm sure John Roberts is going to cry decorum like he did when Obama rightly called him and the other conservatives out for kneecapping democracy in the Citizens United case.

I seriously think this dude had a stroke mid-sentence, recovered quickly, realized he needed to wrap, and leaned on his white supremacist rhetoric. I mean, how do YOU explain... that?